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We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.

Alain de Botton

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The dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people to whom we haven’t been introduced. Humans will only respond to art, to people who are skilled in making you care.
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All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.
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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.
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Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others – because it’s a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.
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Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.
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You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you’re annoyed with them.
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One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I’m basically the child of Richard Dawkins.
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It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
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You need a long hard day’s work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.
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The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
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There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.
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There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.
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What kills us isn’t one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can’t turn down for fear of disappointing others.
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